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Seeing Cardinal

It’s not our week, Dawg fans. Maybe, the basketball team has been reading the Seattle Times too much this week.

Stanford – and their 10 fans in attendance – spanked UW tonight at Hec Ed. It wasn’t as close as the 65-51 final score suggests. It was a butt-kicking. Stanford sucked the life out of Hec Ed early in the game with several consecutive defensive possessions that frustrated UW’s offense. The arena was dead 10 minutes into the game.

And, once again, UW’s free throw shooting was woeful.

Brook Lopez was dominant on both ends of the floor and probably ended Jon Brockman’s Pac-10 Player of the Year candidacy by one-upping him on his home floor.